LUWAK COFFEE FROM INDONESIA – civet coffee
Coffee is one of the popular beverage produced by brewing coffee beans that had previously been baked and mashed. Generated by the coffee taste is bitter acid that can be mixed with sugar, milk or other sensitive material to produce variations in taste according to the tongue of the audience. One of processed coffee in the form of a very famous beverage is civet coffee . Drink coffee with civet coffee label is actually a regular coffee, but has undergone a natural process by first eaten by a mongoose. All coffee beans produced by the coffee plant, coffee plant itself is a member of a genus called Coffea. There are many species of coffee are in the genus. This plant is a plant native to Asia and Africa, but in its development, has made the popularity of coffee drinks coffee plants spread all over the world where this plant can grow, especially in tropical climates.
There are two types of main species of coffee that was developed in modern plantations.Arabica coffee (Coffea Arabica) and Robusta coffee (Coffea robusta). Arabica coffee was first recognized in Ethiopia and living area with an altitude of 600 to 2000 meters above sea level. These types of plants and shrubs are grown to a height of 3 meters when positioned on the climate and soil types are suitable. Arabica coffee beans are small and dark red when ripe. This type of coffee this is the type most widely grown coffee in Indonesia. While Robusta coffee, as the name “robust”, is larger than Arabica coffee.Coffee was first recognized in the Congo. Robusta coffee taste bitter and also slightly more acidic than siblings from Ethiopia. Currently there are many coffee plantations scattered throughout the tropical regions of the world, from Africa, Latin America and Asia to South America. Coffee was brought to America by John Smith, a European explorers in 1607. While the coffee grown in Indonesia in 1690 when the Dutch colonizers making coffee plantations in Java. The results of the most famous coffee from Indonesia is civet coffee. Coffee beans are eaten by the mongoose will undergo fermentation by bacteria in the digestive tract and enrich the flavor of civet coffee is produced. Kopi Luwak expensive and become prey coffee enthusiasts worldwide.
Production Luwak coffee is produced commercially by giving to the civet coffee beans.Civet is a kind of civet, mongoose species that is widely used to process coffee is Paradoxurus hermaphroditus species or often referred to as the Asian Palm Civet. This is a kind of omnivorous mammals commonly found in Southeast Asia and South Asia.Coffee beans are eaten by the mongoose will be digested and had a brief fermentation process in the stomach mongoose. Protease enzymes in the stomach mongoose will process the coffee beans and produce peptides and amino acids. Average civet coffee is in the digestion for 48 hours. In the wild, mongoose will eat only coffee that has been cooked by selecting Based fruit aromas and flavors of traditional civet coffee so the coffee is collected by picking wild civet droppings will taste much more delicious than the civet coffee are deliberately made to maintain the mongoose-fed coffee, although coffee is given to the mongoose has selected only the cook and the best conditions.
Processing starts from collecting civet coffee civet droppings containing the coffee beans.Coffee beans are wrapped in hard cuticle and undigested meat only fruit that is absorbed by the digestive mongoose. Coffee beans will come out together with the civet droppings.Then the coffee beans from the civet droppings cleaned and dried. After drying, the coffee is processed again by frying or baking. Sumatra became the largest producer of civet coffee, mostly from the province of Lampung, Bengkulu and Aceh. Process that has been eaten civet coffee is also known in the Philippines especially in the areas of Batangas.Consumption of coffee is the largest species in Asia are held by the Japanese, Taiwan and South Korea. Consumption in Europe and America are also quite high and became one of civet coffee commercial coffee sought by coffee enthusiasts from around the world.
